Wreck causes power outage

Wednesday

Mar 27, 2013 at 12:01 AMMar 27, 2013 at 3:12 PM

Traffic signals at the intersection of Gum Branch Road and Henderson Drive and Gum Branch Road and Western Boulevard are currently inoperable due to a single vehicle crash that severed a utility pole, according to information from Jacksonville Department of Public Safety.

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Updated at 4:21 p.m.

The traffic signals at Gum Branch and Henderson and Gum Branch and Western are back in operation and traffic is flowing smoothly.

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Updated at 3:42 p.m.

Power has been restored to all but approximately 300 area residents, according to Jones Onslow EMC officials.

"We're going to have to change out a pole and it's got a lot of attachments. There's quite a bit of work that has to be done moving the equipment off the broken pole to the new pole. … The 300 and some folks are mainly in the Williamsburg Plantation area where the … apartments are. If everything goes well, it should take us about two hours to change out that pole, maybe a little less," said Steve Goodson, Jones Onslow EMC spokesman.

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Updated at 3:37 p.m.

Power has been restored to approximately 1600 residents in the Gum Branch Road area, according to the Jones Onslow EMC outage map.

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Updated at 3:20 p.m.

Jone Onslow EMC officials say they were notified by City of Jacksonville at approximately 2:45 p.m. that a crash damaged a utility pole.

"We've got folks that are out there now," said Steve Goodson, Jones Onslow EMC spokesman.

Williamsburg Plantation, Lakewood Drive, Woodlands neighborhood area and those businesses right around in that area are among those affected.

Restoration time will depend on the extent of the damage to the pole.

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Traffic signals at the intersection of Gum Branch Road and Henderson Drive and Gum Branch Road and Western Boulevard are currently inoperable due to a single vehicle crash that severed a utility pole, according to information from Jacksonville Department of Public Safety.

JPD Traffic Officers are at both locations directing traffic until the correction to utility lines may be made.

Authorities ask that motorists avoid those areas if possible, and if in those areas to proceed with caution.

According to information from Jones-Onslow EMC, there are approximately 1,983 customers without power in the area.